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New construction methods for multipermutation codes under the Chebyshev distance metric

ZHAO Peng1;MU Jianjun1,2;JIAO Xiaopeng1,2   

  1. (1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian Univ., Xian 710071, China;
    2. Chongqing Key Lab. of Computer Network and Communication Technology, Chongqing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China)
  • Received:2017-09-26 Online:2018-08-20 Published:2018-09-25

Abstract:

For the limited-magnitude errors occurring in a flash memory system and the disadvantage that the information rates of rank-modulation permutation codes are not high enough, a simple construction method for regular multipermutation codes that can correct these errors is proposed by using the direct product operation on multipermutation sets which have the same minimum distance under the Chebyshev distance metric. Moreover, by using the projection operation on the known simple regular multipermutation codes, the multipermutation sets with different minimum distances are obtained. Based on the direct product of these multipermutation sets, a generalized construction method for regular multipermutation codes is proposed. Compared with the existing construction methods of multipermutation codes under the Chebyshev distance metric, the proposed construction methods of multipermutation codes based on direct product operation are more intuitive. Some calculation examples are provided to verify the validity of the proposed construction methods.

Key words: rank modulation, multipermutation codes, limited-magnitude errors, Chebyshev distance, direct product